Experience

NYU School of Medicine, Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Doctoral Student

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  PhD candidate in the Boeke laboratory studying causal mutations responsible for Type 2 Diabetes risk using CRISPR/Cas9 and big-DNA technologies in human iPS cells.

• Committee Chair - Inspire Science

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  - Spearheading the 2023 symposium - Organizational chair for the annual Inspire Science Symposium hosted by the Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Health.

• Graduate Group Leader

  • Aug 2020 - Aug 2023

  - Mentoring first-year graduate students in navigating the transition to graduate school

• Social Committee Chair - Institute for Systems Genetics

  • Mar 2022 - Jun 2023

  Social Chair within NYU Langone's Institute for Systems Genetics to foster and build a stronger community within the department

• President - Vilcek Student Council

  • Aug 2020 - Aug 2021

  - Directed and coordinated club activities with other council members under all-virtual platforms to ensure the preservation of the graduate student community during the COVID-19 pandemic. - Established close working relationships with members of the Vilcek Institute administration, and served as a liaison between students and the administration to voice student concerns and communicate latest policy updates. - Led formal and informal virtual panels and social hours for prospective students at the Vilcek Institute utilizing proximity-based voice and video chatting for networking between current students and faculty. Show less



Rutgers University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Physics Supplemental Instructor

  • Sep 2018 - May 2019

  Worked for the Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences (ODASIS) to provide additional lectures and exam prep for minority students pursuing a STEM degree. I was in charge of curating lectures, homework, and exam material for ~60 students taking Physics II.

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Oct 2017 - May 2019

  I conducted research under the guidance of Dr. Mikel Zaratiegui investigating variables that affected mobilization of the fission yeast retrotransposon Tf2. My undergraduate thesis research aimed to provide insight as to how these mobile elements move around the genome in the context of stalled DNA replication and transcription machinery. Awarded Departmental Highest Honors for the completion of an Honors Thesis for the work done in the Zaratiegui Laboratory.Transposon Extermination Reveals Their Adaptive Fitness ContributionSusanne Cranz-Mileva, Eve Reilly, Noor Chalhoub, Rohan Patel, Tania Atanassova, Weihuan Cao, Christopher Ellison, Mikel ZaratieguibioRxiv 2021.11.29.470382; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.29.470382 Show less

• Summer Research Fellow

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Expanded upon my on-going research at the Zaratiegui lab and studied how the lack of replication fork barrier activity and the lack of endogenous Tf2 retrotransposons affect retrotransposon genomic mobilization in fission yeast.